Wear comfy shoes, urges Bryce Dallas Howard

Bryce Dallas Howard, who's six months pregnant with her second child, is here for two films. There's Restless, which she produced, about a terminal cancer patient. And there's 50/50, which she stars in, about a possible terminal cancer patient.

Her guidelines for surviving a major film festival while in the family way: "I wear very comfortable shoes. I wore flip-flops last night on the red carpet. That was very comfortable," she said, at a party held in her honor at the Harbord Room.

Her son Theo, almost 5, is beside himself about being a big brother. "He's very happy and focused on it," she says.

Howard stars in the new ad campaign for Kate Spade, and the fashion brand sponsored the intimate dinner in her honor. Jessica Chastain, in a stunning gold Derek Lam frock, turned up to support Howard. The two co-starred in this summer's hit The Help. And here's a somewhat surprising thing about Howard: she eschews booze by choice. "I've never had a sip of alcohol in my life. It's sort of a decision I made earlier in my life. Now it's my 30s. It's a thing," she says.

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